Hello Michael! We can get you through this. The Xorg output goes to the log file
/var/log/Xorg.0.log The previous log - file gets reamed to /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old Please attach these 2 files from when your scenario happened. Then we can help you. p.s. I have added the xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org alias to the CC: field, as this list is more relevant. Regards, Martin On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Michael Whapples <mwhapples at aim.com> wrote: > Hello, > Firstly I will outline my situation so you know what I can manage. I am a > blind user of opensolaris (blind to the extent I can only make out > approximate light level from the computer screen but little in any detail, > eg. I can see the difference of a black screen just before GDM is started, > the standard gnome background and when gnome has applications open, I cannot > read any of the text independently, I use orca in that department). > > In recent build of opensolaris (b130 onwards, this includes b133) I noticed > that X never seems to load, to me the screen appears black (NOTE: I may not > be detecting text error messages). Now I was aware of problems with intel > graphics and yes the computer I am talking about is a laptop with intel > graphics (not quite sure on the intel graphics card model, the laptop is a > dell inspiron 510m). Now mostly my looking at dev builds has been on LiveCDs > but I realised that if I installed I could create boot environments and look > at the logs from a working BE. So I installed b129 and updated in a separate > BE. Now when I mount the b133 BE and look at /var/log/xorg.log > (capitalisation not guaranteed, I used tab completion when opening the file > so I know it exists) I only find the xorg release information and nothing > more. This compares to quite a lot of output in the b129 log which has many > messages explaining what its doing. > > Does this sound like it may be the intel graphics issue? Is there any other > way I can get the output to try and be more specific about what the problem > is (why I stated at the beginning my situation)? > > Michael Whapples > _______________________________________________ > indiana-discuss mailing list > indiana-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss >
